Daniele is a italian photographer based in Guatemala. His images are mainly aimed at issues related to human rights and the pursuit of social justice by focusing on Central America. He followed the events unfolding around extractive activity of a gold mine in the western highlands of Guatemala paying attention to community opposition to the mining project and in 2012 published “Under the same sky” a photo book in three languages (Spanish-English-Italian) on the subject. He has been working other issues in the medium term, focusing on “human stories” that define society in the Guatemala’s aftermath.

He was recently awarded in POY international and POY latam and he is among the 24 finalists at The Manuel Rivera-Ortiz Grant, 2014. He is graduated in “Storytelling and New Media”, a annual course promoted by Fundacion Pedro Meyer and World Press Photo, Mexico. He won a scholarship with which he participated in the Foundry Photojournalism Workshop 2014, and his ongoing project “Guatemala – Ixil Genocide” was exhibited at Lumix Festival for Young Photojournalism 2014 in Hannover, Germany and at Festival della Fotografia Etica in Lodi, Italy. He has attended at several workshops with Rodrigo Abd, Ron Haviv, Luis Gonzales Palma, Cia de Foto, Alejandro Castellote. His works was published in The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, El Periodico, Il Reportage, Makeshift, 6Mois among others.

30 years after the Guatemalan Civil War, the modern-day descendants of the ancient Mayan civilization are still reeling from a violent genocide perpetrated against them. Today, locals look for their long-disappeared loved ones, many of whom were hidden deep in the earth.